I lead our US team in NY & SF focused on identifying North America's most ambitious technical talent and investing in them to build companies.Entrepreneur First is the best place in the world to meet your co-founder and build a startup from scratch. We bring together and fund exceptional individuals to help them meet their co-founder, develop an idea and raise money from leading investors - as fast as possible. The companies built at EF are now worth over $10bn. They include Tractable (a computer vision unicorn), Cleo, Omnipresent, Aztec, Transcelestial, Airbank and many more. We’re backed by some of the world's best tech founders and company builders, including Patrick and John Collison (Stripe); Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Tom Blomfield (GoCardless and Monzo), Sara Clemens (Pandora and Twitch); Nat Friedman (GitHub); and Matt Mullenweg (Wordpress).For more information about Entrepreneur First, or to apply to join our next cohort, please visit www.joinef.com

I lead our fund deployment team responsible for pre-seed IC and our post programme fund deployment globally as well as bridging global ecosystems to investors in Silicon Valley.

I led our Launch team in Asia. We were responsible for selecting the teams EF funds, accelerating them and getting them seed funded in our Asia locations (Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangalore). During that time I setup the 'Launch' programme in our three Asia locations + built the network and program to get over 30 companies VC funded.

I was an Entrepreneur in Residence on the form team. I worked with individuals and early teams during the first 3 months of the programme to develop an idea and prove its potential.

Seed stage online video course marketplace focused on lifestyle and wellness with 85k learners.I serve as an advisor to the CEO on product and business strategy.As CTO I designed and created the launch version of their web platform with React/Meteor with a focus on massively increasing engagement (session length up 50%), conversion (up 22%) and course creation efficiency (3x faster).

VC backed startup building class action lawsuits online against big companies who break consumer law.We pioneered new legal mechanisms for consumer protection, broke several scandals in the press and signed up 50k+ individuals for our lawsuits with a value of over £25m+.I oversaw product and user acquisition as well as assisting in developer lawsuits and building financial models to pitch them to investors.

Founded online learning startup developing technology and business models to scale up live access to 200 teachers online for 20,000 students.Licensed SaaS technology to major universities (Warwick, Coventry, Portsmouth) and funded by EF.

EF supports Europe's best technical talent to build their own high-growth tech startups. They take talented individuals before they have a team or an idea, and spend six months with them to get them to the point where they can take on serious seed funding.

Corporate finance analyst in UK Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) team.Worked on £350m sell side deal for major media company.

Founded an online games network and grew it to 250,000+ users and a 6 figure turnover.Designed, developed and grew 3 online text based virtual pet games.Monetised using virtual goods, affiliate marketing, advertising.Developed network of satellite sites (image hosting, adoptable pets, flash games).Acquired 2 competing sites, grew and sold for 3x return within 12 months.Hired and managed a remote team of 15 artists, programmers and moderators.And created a network of other side projectsServnetic: Sold tech infrastructure to large web sites with growth painsDealSpot: PPC affiliate marketing network driving 3,000 clicks/dayCPAStats: iOS app for reporting and graphing affiliate marketing network profits (1,000 downloads)Picness: image hosting service with 100,000 uploads